I ended my first week of class with my last first day of class which is my Management and Leadership class. It's way different than my other two classes! Sociology and Intro to Government and Politics are both "fresher modules" (or as anyone in the states would understand...freshman classes). They like to take words and make them cuter is the way I would explain it. A fresher is a freshman a fiver is a five pound bill...and the list goes on. Anyway...since those two are fresher modules they are big lecture classes (We do have seminars that are smaller groups of those classes...but those don't start til next week) that meet three hours each week. My Management and Leadership class only meets for two hours every other week. Also, we only have ten people in the class! I really enjoy the professor, she is very nice. This class will be my easy class...which is nice. There are no tests...our grade comes 30% from a "reflective learning log" which is like a journal we keep of what we've learned in the class and how we've grown and changed and whatnot. Then, the other 70% comes from taking what we learn in the class and then choosing an organization to describe and critique them on the things we've learned in this class. We will be learning about organizational culture, organizational structure, group dynamics and leadership. This seems like it will be a fun and interesting class. :) One thing I don't like about Northern Ireland classrooms...no clocks. I like to keep track of how much longer I will have to sit there...tee hee. :)
After I was done with class I came back to my room and have been spending practically the rest of the day planning the trips that I want to take traveling on the weekends. I have two big trips I want to take and one is completely planned. I want to go to Paris and Amsterdam! Through the program I came here with I have learned of a group tours company that I could travel through for both places! I have my Amsterdam trip all planned for the weekend of November 3rd to the 6th!!! Then I want to go to Paris the weekend of November 10th to the 13th...but I have to talk to one of my professors first because I have a tiny conflict with my schedule. November is going to be a busy month... They had other weekends that you could go on group tours to these places but those two worked the best. I have two weekends that I'm doing things with my program. The weekend of October 7th to the 9th we will be going on an "adventure weekend" to Killary which is on the west side of Ireland and then the weekend of November 18th to the 20th they are going to take us on a trip around Dublin (I'm going to email them and find out what is going on the weekend in Dublin though...I don't want to do it if it's the same things I did for orientation which should have been in Belfast for me). Then, I also didn't want to travel the weekends of Thanksgiving or Halloween because those will be fun with my friends! :) So yes...hopefully will have a very busy November ahead of me!
Tomorrow starts my weekend. No plans yet...looks like some spontaneity is in my future!
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